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Is there a business opportunity here? Backup all your crap around the web and then allow you to reupload it to another service with one click?

EDIT: My point was more to pull in all data flickr, linkedin, facebook, twitter, myspace, hacker news, reddit, digg etc. Not just a single source, but all your web data and then upload it a new site if it is applicable. Obviously, it wouldn't make sense to upload your hacker news data somewhere else, but it might make sense to go back and pull out something for use elsewhere.

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This is already possible with Flickr photos, thanks to flickrtouchr and Dropbox:

    git clone https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr.git
    cd flickrtouchr
    python flickrtouchr.py ~/Dropbox/myphotos

I've been looking for something like this, major thanks!

  # TODO set up sidecar
  # write_sidecar(photoid, photo.getAttribute("secret"), dir)

I'll have a look through this - looks like it also allows for metadata capture and I can see some code not implemented ~ https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr/blob/master/flickrt... more here ~ http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr

http://www.backupify.com/

"... Backupify for Flickr archives your Flickr content. More details coming soon. ..." ~ https://app.backupify.com/service_types/flickr/backup_detail...

I'll give it a go. Seems there is a 2Gb limit before you pay but there is nothing to say what exactly is backed up.

Probably not. Smugmug will probably be the biggest beneficiary if the pros leave Flickr, and there are already tools for that. For example: http://www.smugglr.net/

"... Smugmug will probably be the biggest beneficiary if the pros leave Flickr, and there are already tools for that. ..."

That is my strategy.

When I hit 10K images I mirrored at smugmug. But the transition is not smooth. There is a flickr/smugmug mismatch of how they store data. For instance smugmug has (to my knowledge) title but no body equivalent of flickr the result is you loose data. The transfer tools are also pretty basic.

You can copy photosets from Flickr to Facebook or Picasa using http://showzey.com. It manual process now (photset by photoset). I wonder if enough people are interested in paid option for continuously sync between these services?

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